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To be some glitches along the way. every law has hiccups when it's first starting off. people forget, by the way, medicare part d passed by my predecessor, george bush, passed by a republican house of representatives, the prescription drug bill passed into law ten years ago was even more unpopular than the affordable care act before it took effect. everybody was saying what a disaster it was going to be. the difference was democrats worked with republicans to make it work even better. steny remembers this. even though democrats weren't happy that the law wasn't paid for, and was going to add h...

Law has hiccups when it's first starting off. people forget, medicare part b passed by my predecessor george bush, passed by a republican house of representatives, the prescription drug bill passed into law ten years ago was even more unpopular than the affo affordable care act before it took effect. everybody was saying what a disaster it was going to be. the difference was democrats worked with republicans to make it work even better, steny remembers this. even though democrats weren't happy that the law wasn't paid for and it was going to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit a...

Jenna: sphe developing stories we're keeping an eye on in the news raol and control room as well, starting off, julian assange, asking the british supreme court to prevent his extradition to sweden. assange has finish london for a year. he faces rape charges in sweden in his ongoing case. in the meantime the u.s. supreme court has agreed to hear an appeal from secret service agents who say they should be shielded from a lawsuit brought by a man they arrested for confronting then-vice president dick cheney. he claims the agents violated his free speech rights. and the end of overnight mail,...

The heavy rains and days of heavy rain and we have 3-4 storms over the last 8 to 10 days and, brought around in some cases 8 to 9 inches of rain, caused a lot of flooding and flood warnings across much of the ohio valley and flood watches in effect across the eastern seaboard, because of the storm that continues to move through and it is moving slowly and a lot of areas are getting a soaking and northern jersey and parts of eastern pennsylvania and hudson river valley, 3-4 inches of rain possible by the time we get to tomorrow morning and the back side, the colder air will be and we'll see sig...

Starting off, especially, in the first 3-4 months, and that was something i had to bring up and i think it is important that even though i'm new up here and a freshman if i see something that i feel is not correct, my responsibility is to bring that up as an issue. >> chris: senator lee, when you see -- and i talked about this with the chairmen -- making deals during the lame duck session, that extended the bush tax cuts and added another trillion dollars to the debt, and billions for the first responders, did washington -- and particularly did the republican establishment get the message that...